Business Opportunities

Accelerated Strategic Planning

"We think that what is necessary today is a strategy
that breaks free of static plans to be adaptive and directive, that emphasizes
learning and control, and that reclaims the value of strategic thinking
for the world that now surrounds us."Dana O'Donovan & Noah Rimland Flower

If you need to rethink, refocus or refresh your business or project strategy
then our facilitated Accelerated Strategic Planning process will help
recalibrate your organisation's purpose, focus and direction.

The ASP process really engages your people to produce the first iteration
of an action-ready business strategy or project plan in less than 8 hours,
over several sessions.

The process incorporates the powerful Accelerated Planning Technique (APT),
developed by Andrew Smith and inspired by NASA's approach to planning.
This uses a clever on-screen programme to capture and sort input and feedback
in real time. It ensures that a clear vision is crystallised before there
is any work done on higher level strategies or lower level operational
planning.

The sequence is the secret. You will be able to first convert woolly ideas
into a clear vision, then develop appropriate strategies and decisive
action plans while generating buy-in to your key goals.

Feedback and Adaptation

"The essence of feedback is that the effect of an action
is fed back to alter that action."Edward
de Bono

The key to the Accelerated Strategic Planning process as an adaptive
strategic navigation guide is that it produces a living document,
not a vellum bound "strategy" frozen in time. The APT digital template,
which is an essential tool in an ongoing process, can be continually adapted
as a result of feedback and appropriate course corrections made. Agility
is not enough if you are heading in the wrong direction.

Thinking Outside The Square

"To raise new questions, new problems, to regard
old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes
real advances".Albert Einstein

Client Feedback

"Hi Lyall,
I thought your workshop session was aptly focussed, well presented,
and provided the catalyst to energise the members to participate in the
development of a future planning document for the ICS. I acknowledge that
the scope of task may have been challenging with the time constraints
of the day. Despite only having a brief introduction in order for you
to get to grips with the history and background of the ICS, your initial
"change" presentation set the scene, and the accelerated planning
technique was perfect for our situation. I am confident that using the
document structure you have initiated, the ICS can take a large step in
the right direction."

" I will endeavour to populate your initial
draft of the 2025 Vision document over the next few days with the additional
notes compiled and collected. This should then provide a good base document
for the ICS to use going forward. I think we will also need to re-visit
it yearly to judge our progression, and tweak our goals ."

Brent George
On behalf of the ICS Executive Team
[The Institute of Cadastral Surveying Inc.]

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